Women, Feminism and Development
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| Title: | Women, Feminism and Development |
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| Description: | Women, Feminism and Development illustrates the significance and relevance of work on development carried out from a feminist perspective, with a particular focus on the contribution of Canadian researchers and activists. Covering a wide range of themes and concerns, the volume gathers authors from different organizational backgrounds and academic disciplines, and includes chapters on such different cultural and geographical areas as China, Malaysia and Thailand, Mexico and the West Indies, Uganda, Malawi and Ghana, and Canadian Inuit and Indian communities. A unity of purpose as well as a call for a fundamental reconceptualization of society emerge from these varied voices. Women, Feminism and Development is structured to convey a feminist perspective for the construction of theoretical, methodological, and political approaches to development; a critical evaluation of the effect of development policies on women's lives and gender relations; and an understanding of the multiple strategies that can lead to the empowerment of women and real development. |
| Authors: | Huguette Dagenais, Denise Piché |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Women in development--Research--Congresses, Women in development--Developing countries--Case studies, Women--Developing countries--Social conditions--Congresses, Women in development--Congresses, Women--Social conditions--Congresses, Feminism--International cooperation--Congresses, Women's studies--Congresses, Indigenous women--Canada--Social conditions--Congresses |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Women, Feminism and Development illustrates the significance and relevance of work on development carried out from a feminist perspective, with a particular focus on the contribution of Canadian researchers and activists. Covering a wide range of themes and concerns, the volume gathers authors from different organizational backgrounds and academic disciplines, and includes chapters on such different cultural and geographical areas as China, Malaysia and Thailand, Mexico and the West Indies, Uganda, Malawi and Ghana, and Canadian Inuit and Indian communities. A unity of purpose as well as a call for a fundamental reconceptualization of society emerge from these varied voices. Women, Feminism and Development is structured to convey a feminist perspective for the construction of theoretical, methodological, and political approaches to development; a critical evaluation of the effect of development policies on women's lives and gender relations; and an understanding of the multiple strategies that can lead to the empowerment of women and real development. |
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| ISBN: | 9780773511842 9780773511859 9780773564718 |
